A this and that Saturday

It was warm yesterday and I think we all had the automatic response of “oooh and ahhhh” and the sense of coming upon a misplaced valuable. We went for two driving lesson/Shane Wubba-ing trips to the fairgrounds and walked in and out of the house without a thought to a jacket as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

And, then, in the evening, things got too hot: Summer had been reading Dracula for school and I happened to see a VHS copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Goodwill. Right before we watched it, Summer asked me what was the sex scene that was inserted to provide a modern day shock to help convey the scandal of the vampire bite when the novel was new. That was the reason they couldn’t watch it in class. Well, I ‘d never seen the movie and thought surely it couldn’t be much. I was wrong.  There was not just one scene, but many and first Cameron bailed, then Summer joined him- after a continuing monologue of “Why are  they doing this? THIS wasn’t in the book!”

Der Bingle said we would turn it off, but I protested. It was not a wise decision, but I fell asleep until the last 30 seconds. Der Bingle just stuck his head in his Kindle.

I really didn’t know it was rated R; Anthony Hopkins: I’d rather watch you eat someone!

One thought on “A this and that Saturday”

  1. Don’t you just hate that. I don’t understand why they must insert sex scenes or the “F” word just to get the R rating. They ruin good books and ruin good movies. *sigh*

    It is a pet peeve of mine (and Hannah’s) that books are changed for movies. I almost always read the book before watching a movie and invariably end up being disappointed by how they changed it. The one exception to this was the movie Seabiscuit. The movie was better than the book for that one. A rarity. But even well known books like the Lord of the Rings trilogy… we sat there going… no no no, that wasn’t in the second book, it was in the third book….. I guess we are just purists.

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